85% recycled aluminium: Recorp raises the bar for sustainable beverage cans
Aluminium cans are under the spotlight among consumers and beverage manufacturers looking for more recyclable packaging, with the material already holding a strong circularity position against plastic and glass. Recorp tunes it further with ReCan85, an aluminium beverage can containing 85 per cent...
Alcoa strikes $3.1b cash-and-stock deal for South32’s key aluminium assets
Alcoa Corporation is acquiring South32’s key aluminium assets in a USD 3.1 billion deal in cash plus 17,008,960 Alcoa shares, expanding its upstream aluminium portfolio across Australia, Brazil and South Africa. The transaction will also give South32 and its shareholders an equity interest in the...
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Yarwun, QAL's relief as alumina prices rise
Aluminium prices have risen slightly and demand is expected to stay strong. With Queensland Alumina Limited, Rio Tinto Yarwun and Boyne Smelters Limited relying on the price of aluminium to ensure their profitability, it is good news. The London Medal Exchange had the aluminium cash settlement...
2nd Global Bauxite Conference 2016 to be held in Bali, Indonesia, on 29-30 June
Global Bauxite Conference 2015 took place in Kuala Lumpur at the end of June last year. Thanks to the participation of leading companies like Alcoa, Gunvor, Hydro, Itochu, Mitsui, Rio Tinto, Sojitz, South32, UC RusAl, etc. and also the great support from organizations like AZ China, Guinea...
Rio Tinto finally executes job-cuts at Weipa bauxite mine operations
Mining giant Rio Tinto is finally laying off more than 40 staff at its Weipa bauxite operations. The staff are spread across the East Weipa and Andoom ventures. Two weeks ago, Rio Tinto flagged job cuts at Weipa. It wrote to all personnel, warning them of job losses as part of a review to cut...
Fastest, most powerful and aluminium-bodied Jaguar debuts in Australia
The car that got everyone in a lather at the Goodwood 2014 Festival Of Speed in 2014, the aluminium-bodied Jaguar F-TYPE Project 7, has made its Australian debut. Just 10 of the 250 cars produced by Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) skunkworks were earmarked for Australia and all...
ARENA backs plan to use solar energy for alumina refining
A project that could lead to the use of solar thermal technology by Australia’s large industrial sector – and cut its reliance on fossil fuels in half – has been selected by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency in its latest round of funding. Led by the University of Adelaide, the project will...
$40m bauxite mine at Weipa shows promise for 250 jobs next year
A new $40 million bauxite mine is on track to start production next year with jobs for up to 250 people over the life of the project. Bauxite Hills, north of Weipa on Western Cape York, has a Direct Shipping Ore resource of 65.3 million tonnes, worth about $3 billion at today’s prices, and a mine...
Bell Bay Aluminium prepares to cut more power use as Tasmanian energy crisis drags on
Tasmania's biggest electricity user, Bell Bay Aluminium, is preparing for more power rationing, if the state's energy crisis worsens. Bell Bay Aluminium has already cut production by 10 per cent for five months to save electricity as the state grapples with record low Hydro Tasmania dams and the...
Australian Bauxite secures 5,000 tonnes non-met supply deal
Australian Bauxite Ltd announced that it has completed the first sale of 5,000 tonnes non-metallurgical grade bauxite from its Bald Hill mine operations in Tasmania to an unknown buyer for use in the cement and fertiliser markets. The sale is significant, not only because it is rare to hear of...
Tasmanian bauxite miner in maiden sale
Tasmania's newest miner has locked in its maiden shipment after losing $1.04 million last year. Australian Bauxite Limited has had its first 40,000 tonne shipment from its Bald Hill Mine, near Campbell Town, ready since early December. However, the price crashed and a sale deal did not proceed. On...
Rio Tinto warns of job cuts at Weipa bauxite operations
Mining giant Rio Tinto is flagging job cuts at its Weipa bauxite operations. The company has not revealed exact numbers yet, but has written to all personnel, warning them of job losses as part of a review to cut costs because of falling aluminium prices and competition. The operation employs 1400...
Alumina upbeat as Alcoa cuts jobs
Australia’s Alumina is confident recent moves to restructure its business will pay off in the near term, after the price of its alumina rallied in the wake of its cost-cutting program. But the group’s joint venture partner, US aluminium giant Alcoa, isn’t as upbeat about the state of the industry...
Metro Mining submits environmental statement for Bauxite Hills project
Australian bauxite developer Metro Mining has submitted environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Bauxite Hills project in Cape York to the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP). The company said that the latest move marks the commencement of the...
Metallica finds port solution for Urquhart bauxite project
ASX-listed Metallica Minerals has struck a heads of agreement (HoA) with the operator of the nearby Hey Point bauxite mine to provide logistical services for the Urquhart bauxite project, in Cape York. The agreement would see direct shipping bauxite from the Urquhart mine delivered to export...
'Berserk' aluminium boom signals bauxite bonanza for China's quarry
Key aluminium ingredient bauxite is shaping up as China's newest obsession in its mission to secure raw materials and once again minerals-rich Australia is a major target. China's investment in Australia's mining industry plunged, along with the global commodities rout, dropping in 2015 to the...
Australian Bauxite says firm soon to reopen Bald Hill Mine
After months of delays, Australian Bauxite says that market conditions are finally returning to a level that will make it possible to reopen operations at its Bald Hill mine. The firm has been attempting to sell the 120,000 metric tons of bauxite they extracted from their mine in Campbell Town,...
Alcoa, Alumina to sell WA natural gas pipeline stake to Duet Group
Lightweight metals major Alcoa announced that Alcoa of Australia has agreed to sell its stake in DBP, the owner and operator of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP), to DUET Group (DUET) for AU$205 million (US$154 million approx.). DBP is currently owned 20 per cent by Alcoa of...
JSW wins South32 contract at Boddington bauxite mine
Hughes Drilling’s WA division JSW has won contracts with Ramelius Resources and South 32. The South32 contract is at the Boddington bauxite mine for 18 months. Under the contract, JSW will continue to provide blast hole drilling services, utilising four blast hole drills to complete the project....
Australian Bauxite hopes improving market conditions will fire up its Campbell Town mine
Australian Bauxite hopes it will be able to finally lock in a sale within the next month for some of the 120,000 of material extracted from its Campbell Town mine last year. Trouble struck the small mining company’s Bald Hill mine in December when the global bauxite mining collapsed, just after it...
